On Friday, January 12, 2018 09:01:34 AM Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 13:54 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 08:49:05AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > But the various names and use of those names gets very frustrating > > > for me, and > > > I suspect I am not the only one. The numbered versions, the Toy > > > Story names, > > > and then the testing, stable, old stable, old old stable is just > > > frustrating. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history explains this > > nicely and is linked from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian > > I took their point to be that if one needs a wiki page to follow the > versioning scheme then perhaps the versioning scheme has an issue.
+1---thanks for amplifying / clarifying my point! > IIRC teams like the Press Team have a policy of always leading with the > numerical version rather than the code names, presumably for this very > reason, but that doesn't carry over into "casual" conversation like the > parent thread or the repo urls etc. I like that (leading with the numerical version)!
